Tag: Deutsches Eck

An Earthly Wine Melt

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Rhein and Mosel: two streams that each has travelled through major wine growing country before they meet here, at the “Deutsche Eck”, the German corner, in Koblenz.

I was up in a cable car and against the sun so my pictures don’t show the amazing spectacle that the blue-greyish water of the Rhein conflates with the brownish water of the Mosel (probably due to bad weather further to the west).

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Conflate

A German Corner

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The Deutsches Eck (“German Corner”) is the place where the Moselle river flows into the Rhine. In the photo on the bottom is the water of the Rhine, above it the water from the Moselle. The different colours (due to different sediments, different weather, etc.) show that it takes a while for the two rivers to coalesce.

And now lets mix Rhine wine and wine from the Moselle and see what happens…

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Coalesce

One German corner

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I was in Koblenz yesterday and in the cable car up to the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.  In the cabin one has a commanding view of the Deutsches Eck, the German corner, where the river Moselle joins the Rhine.  The corner tip was called Deutsches Eck for a long time but was enlarged and a monumental statue of Emperor Wilhelm I on horseback was erected.  The statue was destroyed during World War II and until German reunification only the plinth remained – meant to be a reminder of the German separation.  A replica of the monument was erected amidst much public discussion in the 1990s.

Public discussion was again fierce when the cable car from the banks of the Rhine up to the fortress was built in 2011.  The area where the Moselle flows into the Rhine is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and people were worried that the view was going to be spoilt but personally I think it does not distract from the beauty of the area.

This is linked to One Word Sunday: Aerial.